This is the jumping-off place for information about how to get into the University. In considering your application to UT-Austin, you may first want to review the various undergraduate or graduate degrees we offer.

The information you need as a prospective student depends on the type of applicant you are. Each category below includes information on admission requirements and procedures, and describes how to contact the appropriate campus office by conventional postal service, telephone, fax, or e-mail. Except for the School of Law, each category also provides a link to UT's online admission application.

Entering Freshman

If you are, or soon will be, a high school graduate with no previous college attendance, apply as an entering freshman. You can apply as an entering freshman if you have taken college courses while still in high school, but if you graduated from high school and took any college coursework afterward you should apply as a transfer student (see below).

Undergraduate Transfer Student

If you attended a college or university after leaving high school, apply as a transfer student. You should apply as a transfer student even if you withdrew from the college before earning any credit or if you earned only nontransferable credit.

Graduate Student

If you have at least a bachelor's degree, or the equivalent, from an accredited college or university and wish to pursue a master's or doctorate degree, apply as a graduate student.

International Student

An international student is anyone who is not a U.S. citizen or who does not hold a U.S. Permanent Resident Visa (i.e. "Green Card"). This category includes international applicants at all levels (entering freshman, transfer, and graduate).

Re-admission Student

If you are a former UT-Austin student and wish to resume study at the University, apply as a Re-admission student. (Note: if you are a former UT- Austin graduate student seeking to return at the graduate level it may be necessary for you to apply as a graduate applicant. Read the Re-admission page first to determine which procedures apply in your case.)

Summer Transient Student

If you are a student at another college or university and wish to attend UT- Austin as a visiting student during the summer only, apply as a transient student.

Law School Admission

The School of Law has its own admission office, separate from the main campus, with distinct procedures, requirements, and Web presence.

Other information of interest to prospective students...

• On-campus housing information, from the UT Division of Housing & Food Service.

• Catalogs, course schedules, & the official University calendar, published online by the Office of the Registrar.

• Honors Central, a collection of links to honors programs available at the University.

• Transfer Guides for prospective transfer students from Austin Community College and from other Texas community colleges.

• How to take guided tours of the campus.

• Campus to Counselor Online, the electronic version of our newsletter for high school counselors (with a lot of valuable information for high school students, too).

• The 1995-96 Student Profile: statistical information about the UT-Austin student body. (Last year's edition is also still available online.)

• The Houston Admissions Center, our pied-à-terre in the Bayou City.

• How to establish Texas resident status for tuition & admission purposes.

• The Exes for Texas Program, a joint project of the Office of Admissions and the UT Ex-Students' Association in which alumni help to recruit top students to the University.

• The first interactive Aggie joke on the World Wide Web.
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